InDesign Crashing Due to Damaged File: How to Recover a 200-Page Book Document

[rachaels75630257]

I have a damaged file that continues to crash in Indesign - cant figure out why. Typically I'd just redo the work but this a book with almost 200 pages - Anyone have suggestions

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[Willi Adelberger]

Export the file as idml, open that, save as new INDD and work with that file. 
If you cannot even open that file, use the script blind open to export the file as IDML. 

[rachaels75630257]

Thank you! I tried that but when I opened the IDML file, it gets hung up when importing links...


Rachael Sullivan
Senior Brand & Creative Manager
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Email: rsullivan@kettlecuisine.com
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[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@rachaels75630257

Can you share your file - on priv? Please ZIP your original INDD file, upload somewhere - WeTransfer or something - and send me a link on priv - click on my nickname.

[Willi Adelberger]

Did you wait long enough? If there was a huge problem, it might take long time. Wait after starting the recovering process from the IDML file. start in the evening and let InDesign try to open it ovrnight.

[Willi Adelberger]

Some important information needed:

1. From which version came the file?
2. Size of the file?
3. When you used images, did you link them or did you embed them?
4. When you look in the  log file of the INDD file, do you see any problems? (CMD/Strg holding and go to the About InDesign ∞ command.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@rachaels75630257 

Thanks for the file.

Looks like it is corrupted on spread 102-103. 

Beginning of the document - up to page 101 - is OK - I'll try to save the rest.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@rachaels75630257 

OK. I was able to fix your file - unfortunately, removing objects on this spread one-by-one didn't work - so I had to remove them all - so I don't know which object exactly was the problem. 

Fixed file sent on priv.

And it looks like you were working on this file for FOUR years??

You should do SAVE AS with a new name at the end of the day - preferably.

Or at least every few days - once a week.

And next day work on this file. You can of course rename old copy of your file then rename the new file.